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more fromwww.slate.com

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This is perhaps the most stomach-turning report I've read since the news about Dilawar broke (in case you've forgotten, that was the taxi driver who was gradually beaten to death in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, even though interrogators believed he was ju

Tags: bad_news, civil_rights, del.icio.us_import, gwot, post:googlereader(source), torture on 2007-12-17 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Rich argues that the longer the misguided Bush policies remain in effect -- the disastrous Iraq "surge," torturing detainees, retrograde legal and fiscal measures -- the more morally culpable the U.S. public becomes.

Tags: commentary, del.icio.us_import, gwot, iraq, law, military, opinion, politics, torture, war on 2007-10-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Pretty much all the arguments -- even the terminology -- used by the Bush administration defending its torture policies were pioneered by the Gestapo and prosecuted by the US as war crimes in 1948.

Tags: bushies, commentary, del.icio.us_import, gwot, law, opinion, politics, torture, violence on 2007-10-14 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Maher Arar, the Canadian who was seized by US operatives while changing planes in NYC, shipped to Syria, tortured for ten months and then set free, is receiving a settlement from the Canadian government. Tthe US denies wrongdoing. This column details the

Tags: del.icio.us_import, gwot, international, middle_east, opinion, politics, torture on 2007-01-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.canada.com

Maher Arar, the Canadian who was seized by US operatives while changing planes in NYC, shipped to Syria, tortured for ten months and then set free, is receiving a settlement from the Canadian government. Tthe US denies wrongdoing. This column details the

Tags: del.icio.us_import, gwot, international, middle_east, opinion, politics, torture on 2007-01-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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As it begins to look more likely that Guantanamo will be shut down at some point, beatings and abuse by interrogators have risen sharply, says one lawyer.

Tags: del.icio.us_import, gwot, news, torture on 2007-01-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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After pulling accused dirty-bomber (and U.S. citizen) Jose Padilla out of the military justice system, putting him in federal prison, and quietly dropping the sensational dirty-bomb allegation, they find that he is probably too mentally damaged from his t

Tags: del.icio.us_import, gwot, news, outrage, torture, u.s.-news on 2007-01-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A partial transcript of Sen. Patrick Leahy's questioning of AG Gonzales regarding the DOJ's handling of the Maher Arar case. For those of you who don't know, Arar was a Canadian citizen with no ties to terrorism who was seized while changing planes in New

Tags: del.icio.us_import, gwot, news, politics, torture on 2007-01-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.thestar.com

Ten most egregious Bush administration violations of the American spirit of freedom and openness during 2006. It's a sorry-looking list. Original source: http://www.slate.com/id/2156397/

I'm adopting Godfrey's [P] notation here -- this is a poppable ve

Tags: bushies, del.icio.us_import, domestic_spying, gwot, law, outrage, politics, secrecy, torture on 2007-01-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Slate's legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwik writes her own "year's ten best" list: top ten civil rights violations in the U.S. in 2006. More at source. See esp. the sorry story of José Padilla. Remember him? The terrorist mastermind who was going to blow

Tags: bushies, conservatives, del.icio.us_import, domestic_spying, gwot, law, politics, torture on 2007-01-03 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Anyone who thinks waterboarding is "not real torture" should read this.

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FindLaw's J. Mariner argues that the purpose of the MCA was primarily not to assist in the prosecution of terror suspects (who have been successfully prosecuted in civilian courts) but to ensure that torturers are immune from future prosecution.

Tags: del.icio.us_import, gwot, law, military, torture, violence on 2006-11-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A German report on the complaint lodged against Rumsfeld in German court today.

Tags: del.icio.us_import, international, law, news, rumsfeld, torture, war on 2006-11-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A TomPaine.com legal journalist on the likely challenges to the MCA.

Tags: del.icio.us_import, law, torture, war on 2006-10-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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From 2005, an editorial consisting of the text of a proposed indictment of Alberto Gonzales for alleged violations of the War Crimes Act (Title 18 USC sec. 2441).

Tags: del.icio.us_import, law, opinion, torture, war on 2006-10-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.truthout.org

A TV producer undergoes waterboarding. Not for the faint of heart.

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A TV producer undergoes waterboarding. Not for the faint of heart.

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